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Blood Point
An Irish escape becomes a Midsummer Night’s terror.
Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover and on Kindle Unlimited. Get The Bloody Edition with uncensored cover art.
Widowed Josh plans a birthday trip to Ireland with his daughter Holly and friends. But luxury soon turns to terror as a dark secret emerges from the mysterious Kinnitty Pyramid.
Josh must team up with an unlikely ally to save Holly, facing a final showdown with a vengeful spirit that hungers for power. Even if they succeed, a grim choice awaits – a life forever changed or a sacrifice beyond imagining.
Blood Point is a chilling blend of folk horror and family drama that will haunt you long after the final page.
Blood River
Getting to the jungle was easy.
Coming home is a killer.
Trapped in the Borneo jungle, British eco-tourist Tara must protect her fellow travellers from a killer possessed by a bloodthirsty animal spirit.
Blood River is available in paperback, hardcover and ebook. It’s also free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
Blood Type
No backspace, no escape, no return.
Free ebook when you susbscribe to my What, Fresh Horror? newsletter. Available to buy in ebook on Amazon and in paperback at book fairs.
Six writers. One secluded manor. And a typewriter that won’t ever let you stop.
A Nightmare Vacations novella about obsession, possession and a murderous muse.
Space Hippy Brain Stew
From my mind to your mind
The In Machina trilogy
Mecs: Strong. Loyal. Smart enough to do the jobs you hate.
Mecsy Inc promotional slogan, 2120.
In Machina is an epic space opera series with big themes and sassy AIs, for readers of James S A Corey’s The Expanse sequence, Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy and Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries.
The Awakening of William 47 is the first In Machina novel, a story that throws together rogue mec 47 and trouble-dogged human Aisha in a whirlwind escape from Saturn’s moons.
The Flight of the Srama continues 47 and Aisha’s struggles to find freedom and identity in a universe that’s doing its best to silence them.
The choices 47 and Aisha make will decide the fates of humans, mecs and the strange creatures which inhabit the cold depths of the outer planets.
Image credit: Judy Schmidt
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Space
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Mars Needs Babies
Mars Needs Babies is my response to the challenge of writing a future shaped by Elon Musk. If you’d like a new piece of short fiction delivered to your email every month, please subscribe to my newsletter. Gwynne concentrates on breathing gently as she secures the suit seals. They’ve never been worn in and you can’t…
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SpaceX caught a rocket!
On October 13th 2024, SpaceX caught a 20-storey booster rocket returning from the edge of space. An hour later, they accurately mock-landed the second-stage spaceship in the Indian Ocean. This was only the fifth test flight of a Starship combo. Spaceflight has long ago passed the Wright Brothers stage of innovation — this is more…
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When the sky came out to play
Last week the sky came out to play, and I crossed off a bucket list item that had begun to feel like a cosmic joke. Now I can say that I have seen an aurora from my front door. In the Noughties, I went to Iceland and Scandinavia in the hope of seeing the Northern…
Writing tips & tools
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How to create Word-friendly headings in Scrivener compile
Scrivener is my go-to writing tool for just about everything1 but it has a weakness: compiling Word documents with built-in headings that make them easy to navigate. Here’s how to solve that problem. I don’t often write about Scrivener because there’s a community of people who really know their way around it, not least the…
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You do not own your AI-generated writing
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If you’re using AI for research, you need to know this
If you’re going to use AI for writing or research, you need to know two things. The first is that AI doesn’t know anything. There are other important things to know about AI. It’s trained on content taken without permission of the creators. It contributes to rising greenhouse emissions and power consumption from technology companies.…
Book reviews
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The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder (Read-o-Rama #18)
I’m sure you know by now that I love bookish events and meeting readers, but like most authors I also crave writing without thinking about logistics! I’m looking forward to a summer break. August 1st will see my final event for a while: the Leamington Spa Book Extravaganza the the Royal Pump Rooms. It’s the same weekend…
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The Colour Out Of Space (Read-o-Rama #17)
One year ago I launched the second Nightmare Vacations novel: Blood Point — an Irish escape becomes a Midsummer night’s terror. If you haven’t read it yet, the ebook of Blood Point will be 99p/¢ until Lughnasadh, the ancient Irish harvest festival on August 1st. You’ll have to read it to find out why this…
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Book vs film: Team Book takes the win
Last week I closed up Book vs Film: a season of reviews comparing eight novels to their big-screen adaptations. The books won, but as the cliché goes, it’s about the journey, not the destination. The working title for this season of The Book Corner was “good book, shit film”. As group-sourced projects often go, not…
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